Hi Squonk, Bryan, Sam, All:
Squonk wrote:
> On a global scale we have a problem unless the higher freedom of intellectual
> patterns can be applied. Sadly, the dominant patterns being applied by the US
> are economic, i.e. Social.
> The IT revolution has radiated images of what the other half are enjoying at
> the expense of those being suppressed by the very same system.
> The IT revolution has also provided opportunities for global organisations to
> operate without a geographical base.
> Until the resources are spread around GLOBALLY with more equanimity; as long
> as inequality and privilege are displayed with such glaring disregard for
> those without, then the revolution will be inevitable.
Pirsig wrote:
"Now, it should be stated at this point that the Metaphysics of Quality
supports this dominance of intellect over society. It says intellect is a
higher level of evolution than society; therefore, it is a more moral level
than society. It is better for an idea to destroy a society than it is for a
society to destroy an idea. But having said this, the Metaphysics of
Quality goes on to say that science, the intellectual pattern that has
been appointed to take over society, has a defect in it. The defect is that
subject-object science has no provision for morals. Subject-object
science is only concerned with facts. Morals have no objective reality.
You can look through a microscope or telescope or oscilloscope for
the rest of your life and you will never find a single moral. There aren't
any there. They are all in your head. They exist only in your imagination.
"From the perspective of a subject-object science, the world is a
completely purposeless, valueless place. There is no point in anything.
Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Everything just functions, like
machinery. There is nothing morally wrong with being lazy, nothing
morally wrong with lying, with theft, with suicide, with murder, with
genocide. There is nothing morally wrong because there are no
morals, just functions." (LILA, Chap. 22)
A major theme of the MOQ is that Q-Intellect's command of society will
ultimately lead to disaster (as it has in Cuba and the Soviet Union)
because SOM lacks the conceptual ability to determine right from
wrong. Intellect does not comprehend much less appreciate society's
vital role in preventing the biological use of physical force to attain
one's ends (otherwise known as murder, rape, pillaging and
terrorism). Thus we see arguments to the effect that economic
inequality is a justification for mass murder, and that if the "haves" will
only succumb to blackmail from the "have nots" then we can all live
happily ever after. Such reasoning only goes to prove Pirsig's warning:
"Intellect has a defect in it."
Platt
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